(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
(n.) Instance; example.
(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(4) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(6) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(8) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(9) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(10) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(11) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(12) The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of HVPC on edema formation in frogs.
(13) The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pretreatment with indomethacin on the refractory period to hypertonic saline-induced bronchoconstriction.
(14) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(15) It delimitates the restrictive conditions in which such methods could be used for clinical but not research purposes.
(16) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(17) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(18) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(20) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
Reach
Definition:
(v. i.) To retch.
(n.) An effort to vomit.
(v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
(v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
(v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
(v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
(v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
(v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
(v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
(v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
(v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.
(v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.
(v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
(v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
(v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
(v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
(n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
(n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
(n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
(n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
(n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(4) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
(5) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(6) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(7) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(8) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
(9) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(10) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
(11) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(12) This indicates that [Ca2+]i may reach greater than 10 microM during an RCC.
(13) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(14) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(15) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(16) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(17) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(18) These O2-exposed cells were resistant to 4HNE, requiring 2.6 times as long in 80 microM 4HNE to reach 30% survival as compared to density-matched normoxia control.
(19) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(20) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.